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tramp ants

tramp ants is the plural of tramp ant.

Meaning of tramp ant

Noun

tramp ant (plural tramp ants)

  1. Any of various invasive species of ant often inadvertently transported in soil with cargo on ships, trains, etc.
    • The occurrence of highly invasive (tramp) ants (Passera 1994) is of concern, and Saks and Carroll (1980) showed that tramp ants could become abundant in disturbed areas while remaining uncommon in nearby undisturbed forests. Exotic tramp ant species have been found to produce major changes in...2004, S. Bradleigh Vinson, Sean T, O'Keefe, Gordon W. Frankie, Chapter 6: The Conservation Values of Bees and Ants in the Costa Rican Dry Forest, G. W. Frankie, Alfonso Mata, S. Bradleigh Vinson...

Questions about tramp ants

What is tramp ants the plural of?
Tramp ants is the plural of tramp ant.

Words near tramp ants in the dictionary

  1. tramontane
  2. tramontanes
  3. Tramore
  4. tramp
  5. tramp ant
  6. tramp ants
  7. tramp art
  8. tramp chair
  9. tramp chairs
  10. tramp data
  11. tramp iron

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